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The Dread Departure
In an unusually irreverent text that plays with the traditional Marathi musical mode of the mourning keertan and the theme of death, Satish Alekar’s The Dread Departure tells the story of a dead…
The Ramayana
Large Mixed Cast
The ancient Hindu epic poem The Ramayana tells of the journey of Rama, an incarnation of God, to set free his wife Sita from the demon Ravana This divine story, here set forth in dramatic form, encapsulates…
The Shadow of the Tiger and Other Plays - Alibaba and the Forty Thieves & Tukra’s Dream
The three plays in this volume illustrate the broad range of Chandrasekhar Kambar’s playwriting. Celebrated as a poet in his home state of Karnataka, Kambar’s work is imbued with a poetic sensibilty,…
The Wind Cries Mary
3 Male, 3 Female
Loosely based on Hedda Gabler, this is set on a college campus in the late ‘60s. Amidst the turbulent anti-war demonstrations and beginnings of Asian-American identity politics, we follow an extraordinary…
Theatre and the World - Performance and the Politics of Culture - HARDBACK
In this passionate and uncompromising work, Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a Third World’ perspective Arguing that Indian theatre has been appropriated…
Wild Rice
5 Male, 4 Female
Set in Adelaide, Wild Rice is a community-devised play from the stories of Vietnamese Australians The play parallels the story of a teenage boy running away from his strict father, with the story of that…
